Thanks for this thread Christina! I'm thinking wow this **** is better than Alanon! (maybe I don't need to go to it tonight - jk - I will go)

And I'm thinking about regrets as thoughts AND emotions. I think that they are/can be both. Sometimes you just think about past things, process, figure out how to do it differently in the future. But sometimes the thoughts can become intrusive and compulsive.

And then, to me, emotions are less controllable, I'm getting better and learning to reason through my emotions - so I won't do things I regret *ding-ding word of the day*.

The point I listed as my main regret I more *think* about these days. I rarely cry about it anymore, I think I have mainly accepted that it is just part of my path, my story. If I fully accept the situation would I still have regret? I wonder...

I've often been jealous before of people with no regrets But jealousy has something to teach us too, about how we would like to be, can help give us direction to the changes we want to make.